The Southern Cameroons Broadcasting Corporation (SCBC), airs programs about protests, activism, and human rights abuses in Cameroon’s Anglophone population it also reports on cultural developments in that community

President Paul Biya says the SCBC is broadcasting hateful and seditious material.

His Communications Minister Issa Tchiroma warns any station airing its programmes will be closed and have its equipment confiscated.

Viewers face arrest.

English-speaking Cameroonians make up a fifth of the country’s 23-million population.

Their protests against what they regard as marginalization are becoming more vigorous.

Earlier this year the Cameroon government blocked  internet services to the Anglophone regions in the north west and south west regions of the country.

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